What does the term “objectum sexuality” mean to you? Objectum-Sexuality is a natural inclination to develop meaningful and significant relationships to objects that possess a particular uniqueness in the eye of the beholder. In other words, people who joke about falling in love with a toaster or a pencil miss the point that OS people … Read more
Taking a cruise conjures up images of moonlit romance and high adventure—far from the worry of daily life. Yet cruise ships are no strangers to crime. In fact, executives of the cruise industry told Congress that of the 26 million cruise ship passengers from 2003 to 2005, 178 in North America reported sexual assaults. In addition, … Read more
On September 5, 2009, 23-year-old Shane O’Halloran and his female companion were in a romantic embrace when they tumbled overboard from Lady Brisbane, an Australian cruise ship. The woman was quickly rescued, but O’Halloran’s body was recovered four days later. O’Halloran is not the only person to die from falling off a cruise ship in … Read more
“She was the largest craft afloat, the greatest of the works of man.” A “floating city,” she carried only as many lifeboats “as would satisfy the law.” Unfortunately, she hit an iceberg, “the only thing afloat she could not conquer,” and thousands were plunged into the icy North Atlantic, “their voices raised in agonized screams.” … Read more
On the afternoon of April 20, 1912, passengers on the German ship Bremen were told they were passing by the iceberg that had sunk the Titanic five days earlier. Those who rushed to the rails were horrified to realize that the hundred or so white dots in the ocean were frozen bodies, held aloft by life vests. … Read more
On April 15th, 2012, the passengers of the Balmoral, a cruise ship on the North Atlantic, will pause shortly after midnight to commemorate the loss of a vessel that sailed the same waters exactly 100 years before. The entire cruise, which departs Southampton on the 8th of April and is scheduled to arrive in New York … Read more
The odds a person who survived the sinking of the Titanic on April 15, 1912 would later commit suicide are 1 in 89. Eight of the approximately 705 people who survived the sinking of the Titanic committed suicide: On October 10, 1912, Mrs. Annie Robinson, a stewardess on the Titanic, became agitated when the Devonian steamship … Read more
How would you react if you found yourself on a sinking ship with a couple of thousand other people? A study recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests your behavior—whether you shove your shipmates aside in a mad dash for the lifeboats or selflessly put the safety of others ahead … Read more
A New York Times article published on April 19, 1912 said the Titanic was “laden with 2,340 souls,” while the British Board of Inquiry gave the total number aboard the Titanic at the time of the disaster as 2,201. Using records from the White Star Line and passenger lists, the United State Senate put the … Read more
Of the 2,207 people aboard the Titanic when it hit the iceberg, 1,664 (75%) were male passengers or crew members and only 438 (19.8%) were female passengers or crew members. The odds a male passenger would survive the accident were 1 in 5.91 (16.9%). The odds a female passenger would survive were 1 in 1.37 (73%). The percentage of survival … Read more